Ocean Of Life

After moving to Washington seven years ago I was compelled to find a teacher so that I could finish my T’ai Chi Chih classes, barely just begun in California. Patricia Strand had also recently moved here, so naturally I began working with her. The momentum picked up from there, enriching my life in many ways. Now I teach at a community college and YMCA, occasionally rent space at our local theater and lead a free, guided practice at the library. Attendance can be spotty but it offers continuity for practice and brings attention about the practice to the public. Two other teachers, Linda Robinson and Donna Jungbluth, joined us last spring. Most recently I am now involved in a Women’s Support Group recovering from cancer.

My life is filled with teachers (who may or may not be involved in TCC) – all traveling or flowing through life on waves of joy and/or pain, which I am beginning to see are just opposites on the same coin. Through these experiences a sense of community is coalescing. Thank you to my accredited teachers and my students who teach me. We are all droplets of water in the great ocean of life.